Word: indochina
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Frances FitzGerald '62, author of the best-selling Fire in the Lake, said last night that the Vietnam peace agreements were only one step in a "long, slow, symmetrical" process in Indochina...
...next 30 days or so may turn out to be a crucial period in the sordid history of American intervention in Indochina. The criminality of it all is that while the United States cannot realistically continue to support any of the above-mentioned regimes with even the slightest real prospects of "success," such support may continue nevertheless. It augurs only to bring death and misery to still thousands more Indochinese. Americans who want to have this immoral war end once for all should not let Nixon intimidate them through the use of the returning POWs but should force Nixon...
...Cambodia continues, the U.S. will not give North Viet Nam the postwar reconstruction aid that has been promised. The North Vietnamese are unlikely to be much moved by that threat. Still, they can never be sure what Nixon may do−short of recommitting U.S. ground troops to Indochina. Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson has made it clear that, if sufficiently provoked, the U.S. will send the bombers over North Viet Nam again. It is also possible that South Vietnamese troops might...
Nixon has fewer options than before in Indochina. The U.S. is only one of several players with waning influence over events. Neither the American public nor the Communist powers will allow the President much freedom of action. This puts all the more emphasis on quiet diplomacy, a craft in which Nixon is skilled. How to maintain the Cambodian balancing act, how to achieve something between victory and defeat remain his mission in Indochina...
...Brave New World-of transistors and miniaturized electronics, antibiotics and organ transplants, high-speed computers and jet travel. But progress came at a price. It was the genius of science that also made possible such horrors as the exploding mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the chemically ruined forests of Indochina, the threat of a shower of ICBMs, a plant increasingly littered with technology's fallout. It is this Faustian side of science, with its insatiable drive to conquer new fields, explore new territory and build bigger machines, regardless of costs or consequences that worries so many critics...